‘Bruegel to Rembrandt: Drawing Life, Sketching Wonder’ at Compton Verney takes us back to the rise of naturalism in Dutch art to see images of life drawing, landscapes, village and city scenes, ...

‘Sir, I think you are chasing a will-o’-the-wisp in trying to find a firm connection,” Seymour Slive told me over the phone from his Maine summer home. At 85, Slive is Gleason professor of fine arts ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art prides itself on the breadth of its collection of more than 40,000 objects, but not universally on its depth. Many important artists are represented by only one or two ...

Today, Jacob van Ruisdael is commonly considered the greatest Dutch landscape painter from the second half of the 17th century. That wasn’t exactly the case when he was alive (1628/’29-1682), painting ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired Jacob van Ruisdael’s Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield."; The Kimbell Art Museum has bought a great Dutch landscape to go with its great Dutch seascape. The ...

Jacob van Ruisdael, Edge of a Forest with a Grainfield (c. 1656), oil on canvas. Photo: courtesy Kimbell Art Museum ...

The Kimbell Art Museum's newly acquired a 17th century work by a Dutch artist considered one of the greatest landscape painters goes on display Friday. In March the Fort Worth museum announced the ...

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth has acquired a 17th century work by a Dutch artist considered one of the greatest landscape painters. The museum over the weekend announced the purchase of Jacob ...

Jacob van Ruisdael’s “Edge of a Forest With a Grainfield,” circa 1656, is a large and well-preserved painting. (Kimbell Art Museum - Kimbell Art Museum) The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired an imposing ...

Earlier this year it came as something of a shock to the art world, especially in England, when the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, announced that it had bought Jacob van Ruisdael's "Edge of ...